Readings by and Q&A with Enda Wyley and Sinead Gleeson and reading of the winning poems from the poetry competition hosted by Bere Island Writing Retreats.
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Sinead Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life was published by Picador in 2019 and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Michel Deon Prize. She is the editor of The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland and The Art of Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories. Sinéad also collaborates with artists and musicians, with commissions from The Wellcome Collection, BBC, Frieze and various galleries. In 2022, with Kim Gordon, she co-edited This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music, published by White Rabbit Books, and Hagstone is her first novel.
Enda Wyley has published six collections of poetry with Dedalus Press: The Painter on his Bike (2019) Borrowed Space, New and Selected Poems, (2014), To Wake to This, (2009), Poems for Breakfast, (2004), Socrates in the Garden, (1998) and Eating Baby Jesus, (1993). A seventh collection is due in 2025. Awards include the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, Melbourne University and a Reading Association of Ireland Award. Her books for children from O’Brien Press are Boo and Bear, I Won’t Go to China! and The Silver Notebook. Enda is a widely experienced teacher of poetry and has been a judge for several competitions, including the International Dublin Literary Award, the Redline Poetry Festival and Strokestown International Poetry Festival. Enda is a frequent contributor to RTE Radio 1’s programme Sunday Miscellany. She has co-hosted with poet Peter Sirr, Stanza, a poetry programme for RTE Radio 1, 2023 and continues to co-host the popular podcast Books for Breakfast, about books and writing. She is a member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of artists.
‘Enda Wyley is a true poet,’ The Irish Times.